Word: english
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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From a total of 843 new Freshmen admitted to Harvard College this fall, 170 are exempt from the requirements of English A-1 by virtue of having received a grade of 75 per cent or better in the English College Board entrance examination, or by gaining special permission from the department to take a more advanced course of instruction...
...only revision in the course this year is the addition of a small amount of instruction in essentials of public speaking. This is being given under the direction of F. C. Packard '20, assistant professor of Public Speaking and Celian Ufford '19, assistant in the English Department. As in past years the second half of the course will be devoted to a change in curriculum...
...best of acting is liable to be submerged. Yet Mr. Faversham succeeds in injecting a considerable amount of gracious humor into his role, and Ara Gerald, although her part was exceptionally maltreated by the playwrights, is both attractive and capable. Miss Atherton plays the conventional caricature of an English governess...
...fact that it has been made shorter this year than previously should permit the instructors in charge of courses to cover their required field without having to require the routine work in the time theoretically to be devoted to personal research. Another interesting change has been effected in English...
...Daladier is like an English Liberal wondering whether he will turn Laborite," he continued. "He and his party are not the extremists in France; the Communists are still beyond them. The award of the portfolios of Finance and War to the Moderate party and the appointment of Briand indicate that he is making some concessions to the other factions...